All stories by Patrick Thomas on BroadwayStars

Sunday, January 25, 2015

World Premiere "X's and O's (A Football Love Story)" in Berkeley by Patrick Thomas

"Football isn't a contact sport. It's a collision sport."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:18PM
Monday, September 8, 2014

Cinnabar "Fiddler" by Patrick Thomas

It's a dazzling production and well worth the trip to Petaluma.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AM
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Santa Rosa "Funny Girl" by Patrick Thomas

Unfortunately, this production�despite the best efforts of the star of 6th Street Playhouse, Taylor Bartolucci�has fallen into a crevasse from which there is no rescue.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:37PM
Monday, July 28, 2014

Marin Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet" by Patrick Thomas

... if you get thyself to the somewhat-rustic Forest Meadows Amphitheatre on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael, you can rediscover for yourself why this love story (if a roman…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:56PM
Monday, July 21, 2014

Bay Area "Old Money" by Patrick Thomas

"If the rich aren't happy�who will be?" It's a good question Wendy Wasserstein asks in Old Money, one of her later plays (first produced a dozen years after The Heidi Chronicles) and one tha…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33PM
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Dezi Gallegos' "God Fights the Plague" by Patrick Thomas

It's a curious balance Gallegos has�the ability to present an adolescent mind with a professional's storytelling skills. A balance that will last but a brief time. Like this run. So get your…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56PM
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Ross Valley "Journey's End" by Patrick Thomas

Even though verisimilitude is not really the point of the new Ross Valley Players production of Journey's End, now playing at the Barn Theatre in Ross, director James Dunn does a brilliant j…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:09PM
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

6th Street "Victor/Victoria" by Patrick Thomas

Composer Henry Mancini and lyricist Leslie Bricusse have provided a couple of great up tempo numbers ("Le Jazz Hot" and "Chicago, Illinois") and the book by Blake Edwards has an actual plot …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PM
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Novato "Gypsy" by Patrick Thomas

When a theater company decides to take on this monster of a show, they had better�like a mountaineer hoping to climb Everest�be prepared with the right team, the right equipment and the righ…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32PM
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Spreckels "Brigadoon" by Patrick Thomas

... if you love musical theater enough, you can probably push those aside and revel in the magic of songs such as "Almost Like Being in Love" and "Come to Me, Bend to Me" and leave the moder…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:51PM
Monday, September 16, 2013

Ross Valley San Francisco - "Chapter Two" by Patrick Thomas

The play veers wildly from one extreme to another. One moment it's wisecracking and sardonic, and in the next, dripping with pathos.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:16PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards